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1815, January 21
PIERRE-JOSEPH FAVROT, NEW ORLEANS, TO MARIE-
FRANCOISE GERARD FAVROT, BATON ROUGE. ALS.
7 pp. French. Richmond.
I always enjoy giving you news of recent events, my dear wife. May they please you and offer some diversion to you and our daughters. The letter I am writing is to be entrusted to Mr. Temard and includes what I did not want to say in the last letter I mailed. It also includes a letter from your son which said that our famous Englishmen departed with a now well- ascertained loss of over 3,500 men, not including the 3,800 wounded who were removed [from-the battlefield]. On the eve of their departure, thpir.way was to be blocked. Two thousand men were going to ambush them in the woods, chase them away, trap them between three fires, and massacre four to five hundred of them. However, since this was said in front of more than forty men in front of the guardhouse, the British were warned and left on the double, abandoning fourteen cannons in their retrenchments, nine of which were good. They can be used in our batteries if necessary. In case the British make another attempt, we are going to be busy fortifying the entrance to canals Villeray[Villere], Bienvenu, and the Terre aux Boeufs, which will be well guarded.
General Jackson's presence revived the spirits of the
American soldiers throughout the fight and saved the country.
If Claiborne had been in command, the British would have
captured the city.-He is a good for nothing, a third-class
lawyer, so it is said, [who isl indolent and indifferent. He has
experienced many humiliations.

1815, January 21
PIERRE-JOSEPH FAVROT, NEW ORLEANS, TO MARIE-
FRANCOISE GERARD FAVROT, BATON ROUGE. ALS.
7 pp. French. Richmond.
I always enjoy giving you news of recent events, my dear wife. May they please you and offer some diversion to you and our daughters. The letter I am writing is to be entrusted to Mr. Temard and includes what I did not want to say in the last letter I mailed. It also includes a letter from your son which said that our famous Englishmen departed with a now well- ascertained loss of over 3,500 men, not including the 3,800 wounded who were removed [from-the battlefield]. On the eve of their departure, thpir.way was to be blocked. Two thousand men were going to ambush them in the woods, chase them away, trap them between three fires, and massacre four to five hundred of them. However, since this was said in front of more than forty men in front of the guardhouse, the British were warned and left on the double, abandoning fourteen cannons in their retrenchments, nine of which were good. They can be used in our batteries if necessary. In case the British make another attempt, we are going to be busy fortifying the entrance to canals Villeray[Villere], Bienvenu, and the Terre aux Boeufs, which will be well guarded.
General Jackson's presence revived the spirits of the
American soldiers throughout the fight and saved the country.
If Claiborne had been in command, the British would have
captured the city.-He is a good for nothing, a third-class
lawyer, so it is said, [who isl indolent and indifferent. He has
experienced many humiliations.